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The Romans
In this book, third in a series which includes Jacques Le Goff's Medieval Characters and Eugenio Garin's Renaissance Portraits, leading scholars search for the character of the ancient Romans through portraits of Rome's most typical personages. Essays on the politician, the soldier, the priest, the farmer, the slave, the merchant, and others together create a fresco of Roman society as it spanned 1300 years. Synthesizing a wealth of current research, The Romans surveys the most complex society ever to exist prior to the Industrial Age. Searching out the identity of the ancient Roman, the contributors describe an urbane figure at odds with his rustic peers, known for his warlike nature and hi...
Perils of Empire
" In Perils of Empire: The Roman Republic and the American Republic, the author traces how the Roman Republic gained an empire and lost its freedoms, and he ponders the expansionist foreign policy that has characterized the American Republic since Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill. This well-researched study of both long-term trends and current events highlights the difficulties of balancing the demands of ruling an empire and protecting democratic political institutions and political freedoms."--Publisher's website.
Julius Caesar
A fascinating, comprehensive biography of the cunning Roman conqueror Julius Caesar. More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for “emperor”—not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and doubled the size of Rome’s territories. But, as Philip Freeman describes in this fascinating new biography, Caesar was also a brilliant orator, an accomplished writer, a skilled politician, and much more. Julius Caesar was a complex man, both hero and villain. He possessed great courage, ambition, honor, and v...
Losing Our Heads
Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head.
Tacitus: Histories Book I
The first historical work by Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus' Histories hold a crucial place in the history of Latin literature. Book I covers the beginning of the infamous 'Year of the Four Emperors' (69 CE), which brought imperial Rome to the brink of destruction after the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius ride the currents of senatorial politics and military sedition to power, while the survivor Vespasian waits just off-stage. After a distinguished public career during the principates of Vespasian and his sons, Tacitus, in middle age, embarked on a historical narrative recording the seering events of the Rome of his youth. This edition provides a Latin text of Book I, a commentary accessible to students of intermediate level and above, and an introduction discussing historical, literary, and stylistic issues. The chance survival of three parallel accounts permits detailed analysis of Tacitus' selection and stylization of material.
A Complete Introduction to the Bible
"A Complete Introduction to the Bible is an ideal resource for personal study, as a classroom text, or for use with Bible study groups. Accompanying charts, graphs, maps, and online study-discussion questions for each chapter complement this presentation."--BOOK JACKET.
Native Peoples of the World
This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.
A Visa for Ahmad
Libya's Muammar Qaddafi is known to have "hit squads" in the major cities of Europe--trained assassins assigned to keep young Libyans in line and eliminate defectors. Despite being seriously threatened by pro-Qaddafi Arabs, an American couple vacationing in France attempts to help a young Libyan escape to the U.S. When Ben and Jo Caldwell develop a friendship with the young Libyan aircraft technician in Paris, they are warned that he could have possible connections with the notorious "Carlos group," entangling them in an international conflict. Other mysterious warnings send them to the Cote d'Azur, where Jo is kidnapped and held briefly as a hostage. Later, having reached the States with the Caldwells' help, their friend Ahmad is wounded by a Qaddafi death squad, prompting Ben to pursue the would-be assassin throughout Europe to a final confrontation at Cap d'Antibes. With settings in Europe, North Africa, and the U.S., the story incorporates humor, romance, and intrigue against a frightening backdrop of modern terrorism.
Rational Points on Varieties
This book is motivated by the problem of determining the set of rational points on a variety, but its true goal is to equip readers with a broad range of tools essential for current research in algebraic geometry and number theory. The book is unconventional in that it provides concise accounts of many topics instead of a comprehensive account of just one—this is intentionally designed to bring readers up to speed rapidly. Among the topics included are Brauer groups, faithfully flat descent, algebraic groups, torsors, étale and fppf cohomology, the Weil conjectures, and the Brauer-Manin and descent obstructions. A final chapter applies all these to study the arithmetic of surfaces. The do...
